Unique projects of the "Computer. Education. Internet" competition will be offered for study

June 17, Minsk / Yulia Vanina - BELTA /. Unique projects developed by participants of the republican competition "Computer. Education. Internet" will be offered for study and practical application in schools and other educational institutions of Belarus. This was told to a BELTA correspondent by Irina Kirinovich, chief inspector of the general secondary education department of the Ministry of Education of Belarus, summing up the results of the competition. Authors and author teams of the winning projects in four nominations were awarded diplomas of I, II and III degrees and prizes. A catalog of the best projects is posted on the websites of the main information and analytical center of the Ministry of Education and the Republican Institute for Vocational Education. As Irina Kirinovich emphasized, these projects are included in the catalog of the industry fund of software learning tools. Work is also underway to create a special disk, which will be distributed to all education departments of Belarus. "So all teachers will be able to get acquainted with the innovative ideas and projects of their colleagues and will have the opportunity to work with modern methodologies," she said. The republican competition was held in 2009 for the fourth time in four nominations. The first of them is "electronic learning tool of general education direction" (a software project intended for organizing training in a general education subject, electives). The best projects in this nomination were: "Astrophysical Portal" (Mogilev Regional Lyceum No. 1), "Formation of Orthographic Acuity" (Secondary School No. 101, Minsk), "Fine Arts, Grade 1" (Gymnasium No. 22, Minsk). The second nomination is "electronic learning tool of vocational direction" (a software project intended for organizing training in vocational subjects and vocational training). The best projects were named "Locksmithing" (Vitebsk Vocational Lyceum No. 5 of Instrument Engineering), electronic textbook "Machine Work" (Minsk Professional Technical College of Sewing Industry), "Basic Haircuts" (Pinsk Professional Technical College of Light Industry). The third nomination is "electronic resources of educational institutions intended for educational purposes and extracurricular activities". The first in this nomination were: "Traffic Light School" (Gymnasium No. 1, Volkovysk), video excursion to the memorial "To Children - Victims of War" (Zhlobin Professional Agrarian-Technical College), "Years Scorched by War. Chronicle of the Great Victory" (Secondary School No. 55, Minsk). In the fourth nomination - "website of an educational institution as a methodological internet resource" - the jury highlighted the website of Gymnasium No. 6, Minsk, "Electronic Portfolio of Digital Educational Resources" (Vitebsk Professional Lyceum No. 1 of Machine Engineering), "Differentiated Learning" (Secondary School No. 27, Gomel). About 500 projects took part in all stages of the competition. 89 projects were selected for the final stage. Moreover, 59 of them were presented by students and teachers of general education institutions, 24 by vocational schools, and 6 by secondary vocational schools. The largest number of ideas and projects in the final stage of the competition came from Minsk - 25. Brest region presented 16, Mogilev region - 15, Grodno region - 12, Vitebsk region - 9, Gomel and Minsk regions - 6 projects each. -0-